the leaves are falling back east...
that's where i want to stay...
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dealing with your parents' mortality is akin to dealing with your own. you and i will both be in the same place later.
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dealing with your parents' mortality is akin to dealing with your own. you and i will both be in the same place later.
posted by jersn at 4:51 AM
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Was just talking to a friend who moved out to California. He really misses east coast life. I like the reset button that the east coast provides.
My parents are funny about their mortality. My dad almost died once, and they didn't tell us about it until a week or two after he got better. Which, actually, thank God.
Dork - no one here gets out alive.
"all i know i've gotta be who i wanna be."
i used to think in terms of what my mom would do. then it changed to my dad, because she removed herself from my life. and i learned to think, but then i started thinking like my father. that's when it got strange.
i began to understand my father when, for no reason, he began telling me about his own father one late summer day one Meadowview. he told me about the cherry trees, the fruit trees, the rows of plants that he tended to. and i remember him stopping...i was finally getting that insight, that little thing that we all deny ourselves, letting it out....
and we both realized where we were, eight feet from a pool and talking about the past over a 4x4 that neither of us drove into the ground.
i guess this is what really should have been posted.
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